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It would not be too fanciful to see The Nanny as Hammer's horror version of Mary Poppins (US, 1964). Its eponymous heroine is actually referred to as 'Mary Poppins' at one stage and the family seems to see her in an idealised light as the devoted domestic who lightens the family load; it is only Joey who insists she is trying to kill him.
This is not the first time Seth Holt has been involved on a film about a lethal lady in a nanny-ridden England, for he was also the associate producer on The Ladykillers (d. Alexander Mackendrick, 1955).
Cinematically, The Nanny is a knowing film.
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With its dark deeds around a shower-curtain and bathtub, and deranged monologues to the dead, it teasingly invokes Psycho (US, d. Alfred Hitchcock, 1960). The casting of Bette Davis, fresh from her tour-de-force in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (US, 1963), brings frissons of fear, and there is a smart allusion to one of her most famous moments of screen villainy when, as in The Litt